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May 01, 2008 02:31 PM
ALEXANDER RIPS INACTION ON GRAVES BID
U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., blasted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Wednesday for his "insult" to Memphis, "affront" to African-Americans and "playpen partisan politics" with the TVA board nomination of Memphian Bishop William H. Graves.
In unusually blunt language for a senator, Alexander, the No. 3 Republican in the Senate, demanded in a letter that Graves' renomination, pending since last July, be taken up, along with the nomination of Susan Williams of Knoxville.
Graves, a 10-year member of the Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division board of directors, was the first Memphian and the first African-American man nominated to the Tennessee Valley Authority board since 1933 when President Bush named him in 2006. He was confirmed, served until the end of a term last year and was renominated.
In unusually blunt language for a senator, Alexander, the No. 3 Republican in the Senate, demanded in a letter that Graves' renomination, pending since last July, be taken up, along with the nomination of Susan Williams of Knoxville.
Graves, a 10-year member of the Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division board of directors, was the first Memphian and the first African-American man nominated to the Tennessee Valley Authority board since 1933 when President Bush named him in 2006. He was confirmed, served until the end of a term last year and was renominated.
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